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<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<br/>
-Last updated: Thu Jan 5 10:13:26 EST 2006
+Last updated: Thu Jan 5 11:23:42 EST 2006
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<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
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remove the 'fsync' parameter (which results in an an inconsistent
database) in favor of this capability.
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+ </li><li>Allow control over which tables are WAL-logged
+<p> Allow tables to bypass WAL writes and just fsync() dirty pages on
+ commit. To do this, only a single writer can modify the table, and
+ writes must happen only on new pages. Readers can continue accessing
+ the table. Another option is to avoid transaction logging entirely
+ and truncate or drop the table on crash recovery. These should be
+ implemented using ALTER TABLE, e.g. ALTER TABLE PERSISTENCE [ DROP |
+ TRUNCATE | STABLE | DEFAULT ]. [<a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?wallog">wallog</a>]
+</p>
</li></ul>
<h1><a name="section_20">Optimizer / Executor</a></h1>